In the land before time

[Pangaea]

(OOC: Sure, Myrkin. )

Screech shrieked in surprise and rage as Claw pounced on him. He thrashed wildly in an attempt to keep Claw’s teeth away from his neck. He even let go of Pangaea with one hand, swiping at the other fast biter’s face with his claws. His other hand kept a tight hold on Pangaea’s neck and shoulders, leaving the red glider’s body hanging most uncomfortably. Pangaea was afraid that he would be choked to death, until Screech finally succeeded in dislodging his assailant. Throwing Claw from his back, he spun to face the other fast biter, eyes ablaze.

“All right,” Screech growled, “if it’s a death wish you’ve got, I’ll gladly grant it!” Bringing the deadly sickle claws on his feet to bear, he leaped at Claw.

[Myrkin]

Claw was just getting up, feeling the burning pain on his face where Screech had hit him, when the other fastbiter tackled him, causing him even more pain. Claw stood up and roared at Screech in anger:

"Niech ci’ piek?o poch?onie!" he cursed, forgetting that his native language wouldn't be understand by leafeaters and surely not by sharpteeth like Screech. The pain, the anger and the andrenaline was making his thinking difficult. He attacked Screech, slashing with his claws at fastbiter's eyes. At the same moment, a particular little sharptooth decided to help in this fight and bit Screech in one of his legs.


OCC: Maybe Claw will bother Screech so much, he will become the latter's new most-hated-person?

[Pangaea]

I’m beginning to hate all of these blasted newcomers! Screech thought as he dodged Claw’s strikes. He leapt backwards to put himself out of range, then, balancing on one foot, kicked the leg Chomper had latched onto, trying to fling the small sharptooth away.

Suddenly Screech felt something land on his head. What now? he thought. An instant later his vision was obscured by two soft, leafy-feeling objects, as small claws dug into his nape and eyebrows, and a series of sharp taps assaulted the top of his head.

Gliding in from out of nowhere, Guido had alighted on Screech’s head, clinging to him with hands and feet like a stubborn vampire bat. He was pecking the top of Screech’s snout and forehead with his stubby beak, wings covering the fast biter’s eyes.

Screech yowled in anger and pain. “A little help over here!” he roared, hoping that one of the other fast biters would come to aid him in dealing with these nuisances.

[Cancerian Tiger]

Anna was trying to think quickly as several fastbiters approached her at once.  She knew there was no way she could get out of this one by getting physical with the fastbiters.  Her only other option was to use psychology.  She grinned evilly as she brought her tail around, gripped onto the end, and began to lick the injured area clean.  The fastbiters' expressions changed from sinister to that of shocked and weirded-out.

"Mmm, that hit the spot!  Nothin' like the taste of fresh blood!" Anna taunted before she eyed the fastbiters.  Their expressions became horrified when she made an evil expression and licked her chops.

"Ya know, that...just...made...me...HUNGRY!  ROAR!" Anna roared as she ambushed the fastbiters.  The fastbiters turned tail and sped off like scared hatchlings.  After she chased them for a few moments, Anna stopped and laughed briefly before she returned to where Mr. Threehorn was.

[LBTFan13]

Rob tried as hard as he could to stand up numerous times, but the pain surging through his body kept him on the ground. "What the hell is happening to me?" he cried out. He could feel his insides violently shifting as to form an entirely new bone structure. "Come on, Rob! You have to stand up and fight!" Unfortunately, the more he told himself this, the more his body fought him. He immediately felt like a fool for going after Thud like that. Why am I so weak? I thought I would have been much stronger than this. I guess I'm not as strong in this world as I am in my world. Now I made a fool of myself in front of all the grown-ups, the other GOF members, and Littlefoot and Zaine. He was fortunate that fast biters didn't decide to pounce on him while he was on the ground, otherwise he would have been dead for sure. At the same time, he felt like he was already dieing.

Littlefoot continued to knock rocks off the hill when he noticed something nearby. He looked over and saw Chronicler and Ruby. They obviously had climbed for higher ground so they could evade the fight, but now their presence was exposed. There was no sense in hiding it now. "Chronicler! Ruby!" Littlefoot called to them. "We had to come! We wanted to help!"

"And nobody was going to tell us otherwise!" Zaine added in. He received a glare from Littlefoot, indicating that that might not have been the best thing to say, but he honestly didn't care. "It's no use hiding any more Littlefoot! Let's go down there and fight!"

"No!" Littlefoot argued. "You saw what happened to Rob! We are not jumping in that fight! We have to keep knocking rocks down!"

"Damnit Littlefoot! Stop being such a scaredy egg!" Zaine couldn't believe he said those exact words, especially to Littlefoot. He was just filled with such rage he couldn't handle it anymore. Rob was injured, and he wanted to go help him, not sit up on top of a hill.

Littlefoot was almost speechless. He never expected Zaine to call him out like that, ever. It was almost as if he was talking to Cera for a second. He wanted to argue back, but at the moment he knew there were more important things to worry about. Deciding to worry about it later, he turned to Ruby and Chronicler. "Is there any larger rocks we can use to knock down?"

[Amaranthine]

The two adult flyers paused once they saw Anna charging at the fastbiters like a mad dino and the fastbiters ran off. They stared in horror at the sight of Anna and her tail. Rebecca however brought herself back to the battle scene and said, "Pterano, try to help Mr. Three Horn get these fastbiters away, I'll go check to see if she's okay."

Ms. Flyer went over to Anna and flew around her and asked, "Are you alright dear?" She hoped to help Anna with her tail.

Pterano saw other fastbiters charging at Mr. Three Horn and Pterano flew out to attack them, but Mr. Three Horn was able to knock them out by ramming them into a boulder, which knocked most of them out. A few other fastbiters tried to attack the three horn again, but Pterano lounged at them and screeched in their faces, hoping to scare them off.
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Red Claw was slipping and slidding in the rain as this was going on, and he heard the screech of a flyer, hoping maybe it was his prospect, he ran toward the scene and Pterano flew the other way hoping that Red Claw would follow him, but Red Claw knew it was a different scent, not the youthful scent of the flyer he wanted.

Mr. Three Horn rammed into Red Claw, with Red Claw roaring in pain. He swipped at Mr. Three Horn, who in turn had Pterano fly near the bumbling sharptooth's nose and he bothered the sharptooth by constantly flying around and pecking at him.

Mr. Three Hor watched as Pterano did this heroic action. He couldn't believe, someone, rather a well known traitor help him like that.

He also turned to Anna and saw that her tail was bleeding, he demanded, "Rebecca, see if you can try to heal that wound, we need to keep strong for battle!"
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Tria then stated, "Cera the threehorn, this is me! Why are you kids doing this? You're going to get in big trouble for this!"

Amy kept hearing the screeches and cries of the others, she was in so much emotional pain of all that was happening. It was largely her fault, leaving like she did and allowing something like this to happen. She got off Tria's back and stated, "Tria, I don't think it's any use to tell them this, the others need help now! "

And at this, she piled up some rocks and started throwing at fastbiters, but much to her dismay, fastbiters were trying to climb up the cliff to the kids.

I may have messed up with this battle, but I will be darned if I had my childhood memories of these kids dead!

So she started throwing rocks and Tria decided that she should help, so she got some bigger ones and rolled them, knocking four fastbiters away.

Tria smiled as this happened.
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The female fastbiter limped away and heard Screech's call. She ran to his aid and lounged at Claw, knocking him on the ground, she suddenly stopped, realizing it was a fastbiter,

"What the-?" She paused for a moment beholding the enemy fastbiter.
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[The Great Valley Guardian]

Rick stopped chucking rocks for a moment as he heard Zaine shouting at Littlefoot. He then sighed aloud and stepped away from the edge of the hill and kneeled down next to Zaine, while setting his hand on the longnecks back. "ZAINE!" he shouted to ensure he had his attention. "I know  you're angry, I can see it in your eyes, and feel it when you speak, but now is NOT the time to be fighting among ourselves. This fight has far too much going on for us to be distracted by our fears."
Rick then looked down at the battle. He took a deep breath, knowing what he planned to do was something stupid. He then faced Zaine again and said, "If you really want to help... just be sure to cover me!" Rick then rushed forward and using the soles of his boots began sliding down the hillside, however once he began nearing the bottom he pitched forward and started to run. Using that momentum he changed forms again into his Longneck persona and charged through several fastbiters and stepped on two others.

Spike was stunned to see Rick do what he did. He chucked another rock over the edge of the hill and then turned to Ducky as if to ask, 'Is he crazy?!'

Longtail could see the attack going on against Screech, and it pleased him to see the fastbiter in such a vulnerable position, but still he continued to circle the fight scene building his momentum knowing that when he got the chance to attack, he'd take it! It was only then that Longtail noticed the female fastbiter and decided it was time to stain his claws. He dive bombed the female fastbiter and did a midair flip resulting in his tail smacking her in the face. He then spoke in sharptooth. "Come and fight me! You coward!"

Cyrix could see Rob was in pain from his bite and was upset at not being able to help. He did however continue to claw, kick, and bite any any nearby fastbiters that came too close. Cyrix quickly realized, that despite not knowing much of these newcomers, he saw most of them as family, and seeing one of them in pain made him think about Longtail and Zaine. The rainbow face leaned down and spoke to Rob. "I... I don't know what's wrong but I can see you're in pain... but please, don't fight it... accept it. I know it hurts, but sometimes what we fear and how we deal with it... can change who we are for the better."

[The Chronicler]

Chronicler threw another large rock, but it was another miss. In fact, he had almost cause friendly fire with that rock, as it came closer to a leaf-eater than a Fast-Biter. He knew it was time to try something different. It was then that he noticed Redclaw, doing hardly anything. This presented a huge opportunity. "If you want to stop an army, the best way to do it is to kill the commander," stated Chronicler. "In other words, if we're going to stop all these Fast-Biters, we should try to take down Redclaw."

"But how are we going to do that?" asked Ruby. "If these rocks are barely big enough to take down a Fast-Biter, how can we use them to take down Redclaw?"

After Littlefoot asked his question, Chronicler looked around. He then saw a massive rock near the edge of the cliff, which also happened to be closer to Redclaw than their current position was. "Would that be big enough?" he said. "Come on, everybody! We're gonna need some unity here." He then ran towards the massive rock, with Ruby right behind him.

[Myrkin]

Claw used Longtail's diversion to get buck on his feet. He looked around to assess the situation and then he saw another fastbiter charging at him. This one must had heard Screech's call as well. Claw barely dodged his attack, but the big fastbiter didn't stop even for a second to launch next strike. Claw/Myrkin had a difficult time avoiding predator's teeth. Then, he stumbled on his dropped harpoon. He quickly grabbed it and used immediately to defend himself. Other fastbiter just seized the shaft of the harpoon in his jaws, but unlike Screech he didn't throw it away. He had bitten through the bamboo, cutting it into pieces. He stared at Claw with self-satisfied expression at his face, then he lounged at Myrkin. Claw dodged him for the last time and then he started running away, as doubted that he could win a one-on-one against that fastbiter and he just couldn't dodge him forever. The latter followed him quickly. They run (big fastbiter chasing Claw) and soon they put a great distance between themselves and the battle...

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Meanwhile Chomper was flung into the air by Screech. However, after he hit the ground, he got up and attacked Screech again, this time bitting him on his tail, trying to help Guido with freeing Pangea.

[Cancerian Tiger]

"I'd appreciate your help, but I think we've got a bigger problem over there!" Anna replied to Rebecca as she pointed to the fastbiters that were headed for the children.

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"I don't care if I get in trouble for this!  It's better than sitting around not helping our friends!" Cera barked as she headed over to join Chronicler and Ruby.  Ducky then joined them.  She may have been small, but her devotion to her family and friends was much bigger.

[LBTFan13]

Rob could hear Cyrix's words, and he certainly was trying as hard as he could to fight the pain. Why he was being told to accept it was beyond him, but he knew that Cyrix always knew what he was doing or talking about. Rob nodded and weakly replied, "I'll try." He closed his eyes and stopped struggling. He let whatever was going through his body take complete control. It still hurt him, but not as much now. All of a sudden he felt something very strange on his hands. He looked down and noticed something that took his breath away. He was growing claws. "What the hell?" He then noticed the same feeling on his feet. He quickly tore his shoes and socks off as claws began to form on his feet. "Oh my god! I'm becoming a fast biter!"

Littlefoot noticed the boulder that Chronicler was mentioning. "Come on guys! We gotta help Chronicler push that boulder off!" He rushed over and stood next to Chronicler and began to push. This is almost like with Sharptooth.

Zaine watched as Rick high tailed into the battle. He didn't know how to react to what Rick had told him, but he did realize that Rick needed cover. Zaine continued to knock rocks at fast biters as they tried to attack Rick. "Come on you b@&$!#&@"

[Amaranthine]

It was then that he noticed Redclaw, doing hardly anything.
 

(OOC: Ehh actually Pterano and Mr. Three Horn are fighting him. That doesn't mean you cannot go into action to wound him of course, but yeah, I just wanted to point that out.)


The female fast biter quickly arose to her feet and saw at another fast biter was chasing Claw away. She shook her head seeing the flyer that just dived at her. She growled at him, but she looked to Screech to see if he was okay. He seemed alright for the time being, but she had a sinking feeling that something terrible was going to happen. It was known in the dinosaur world that if you stood against dinosaurs like those of the Great Valley, you were dead meat. At least, that was what she heard.

At any rate, she charged toward the long tailed flyer gave him a good head butt, ramming him into a tree and she began clawing at him.
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"You bully! We'll show you how it's done in the Great Valley!" Mr. Three Horn roared at Red Claw.

Pterano flew around and continued to peck at him, but finally, Red Claw was able to use his tail and swipe to where he thought Pterano was, and he knocked Pterano out just like that.

Mr. Three Horn looked back at the bold, proud flyer in horror as he was knocked out. He also heard Anna's words and looked to the direction the swimmer was pointing at. More horror conquered him, but a strong, determined voice got him back to his senses, which funnily enough came from Rebecca, "Three Horn, me, Anna and some others will distract them, you should keep taking out Red Claw!"

"Since when did you tell me what to do?"

"Since when you came in position as the absolute fighter...and leader." She stated this to hopefully make Mr. Three Horn have all the reason to fight Red Claw. Mr. Three Horn had his ego boost again, which in turn, made Rebecca sigh to herself at his typical reaction.

Then she took off and called others to come near and distract the fast biters from the kids. A spiketail, two shortnecks, and other dinosaurs came in and started to roar and head butt the fast biters for them to stay away from the kids.

Rebecca then caught the sight of her brother's body a little ways and gaped in horror, she was now in a dilema, either she help her brother, or help protect the kids, HER SON!
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Amy peered over Tria and fast biters retreating a bit and she stated, "Why are they stopping?"

Tria was in absolute bewilderment that Cera spoke to her like this, while she knew Cera had a point, that was no excuse to disobey any of her elders.

She sighed and asked Amy, "Amy, I hope you don't mind long rides, because I'm going to see what is going on." Tria ran the other way with Amy on her back and followed Cera and Ducky to Chronicler.

[Cancerian Tiger]

Anna quickly followed Rebecca over to the fastbiters that were after the children.  She managed to catch one fastbiter off guard by snatching it up and then sending it to barrel into several other fastbiters.

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"Ugh, this isn't working!  We need more pushers!" Cera panted.

[Kor]

Petrie flew over to where the bolder was and landed among his friends and started to try to help them push with the effort quickly showing on his face.

[Kor]

Petrie flew over to where the bolder was and landed among his friends and started to try to help them push with the effort quickly showing on his face.

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Flapper continued to fight as best as he could against the fast biters that were on him, if any.

Mim focused on working with the dinosaurs her size to help them to fight against the fast biters.

Grandpa Longneck used his tail to swat a few, stepping on 1 or 2 if he could also.

[Pangaea]

Though Screech could barely see with the teal glider’s wings covering his eyes, his nose and ears told him that at least two other fast biters had come to his aid, and one of them had chased the traitorous stick-wielding fast biter away. However, he still had a small sharptooth clinging painfully to his tail, and an unwelcome living blindfold hammering at his head.

“Whoever’s there!” he yelled, “get these little pests off of me!”

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Most of the other Great Valley dinosaurs who had been convinced to join the rescue party were experiencing abject terror at the moment. Most, if not all, of them had never seen so many fast biters in one place before. Those who knew the tale of the ill-fated herd that had followed a certain flyer in the wake of the Great Earthshake felt as if they were living the same nightmare.

“Oh, I wish I’d stayed in the valley,” a hollowhorn whimpered as he cowered beneath an overhanging cliffside. "We all should have stayed in the valley."

“Are you kiddin’ me?” Mr. Clubtail shouted as he bludgeoned a pouncing fast biter in midair with his tail. “I haven’t had this much fun in cold times!”

“Easy for you to say,” the hollowhorn muttered. “You’ve got skin like a rock and a boulder on the end of your tail!”

“My bopper,” Mr. Clubtail snappily corrected. “And if you don’t shut your beak, you’ll be the next one it kisses once I run out of fast biters!”

“Why don’t both of you keep quiet!” yelled a spikefrill as she rammed her head into a charging fast biter. “Save your bickering for after this is all over!”

Another fast biter came at her. This one she scooped up with her horn and, with a quick upward toss of her head, sent careening through the air over her back, in the direction of the other two leafeaters. “Catch!” she shouted.

The hollowhorn ducked; a gleeful grin spread across Mr. Clubtail’s face as he swung his tail.

The fast biter’s consciousness was already on vacation when he hit the ground.

[The Chronicler]

Despite all the help they were getting, Chronicler and Ruby were having a lot of difficulty pushing the massive rock off the cliff. "This rock isn't moving, not even with all off us trying to move this rock," said Ruby.

Chronicler then realized something. "Woah, wait, everybody, stop. Stop! STOP!" he shouted. "Something's not right here, so I better take a quick look to see what's making it so hard for us to move this rock." He then ran to the other side of the rock, close to the edge of the cliff. He looked at the bottom of the rock and said, "Well there's your problem. The rock's too stable, but I can fix that. If I can remove enough of these smaller rocks underneath this big rock, it'll make it more unstable, and therefore easier to push off the cliff."

"But what if you make the rock too unstable and the rock falls on top of you?" asked Ruby, clearly concerned about such a risky plan.

"I understand that, and it's a risk I'm willing to take. But to be on the safe side, I highly recommend that none of you try to push this rock right now, don't even touch it."

"You heard what Chronicler said! He said to not even touch this rock, so I don't want to see any of you touching this rock until he says you can touch this rock again!"

Chronicler was rather surprised to hear Ruby defending him like that. I'm starting to get the feeling that she might like me a little too much, thought Chronicler.

[Kor]

"Half of biggest ones can be on each side of rock.  Keep it in one place if it does try to move." Petrie said.

[The Great Valley Guardian]

The moment he realized his body was pinned against a tree, and he was being mauled by the female fastbiter that he'd openly attacked, Longtail's body went into survival mode, and he gave a primal roar as he reached forward with his beak and bit down as hard as he could onto the fastbiters snout drawing blood and he then reached out with his tail once more and smacked her tensely across the face several times in a desperate attempt to get her to move back.

Cyrix stood next to Rob simply watching his change. He didn't know what was going on or why it was happening, but he was now determined more than ever to aid Rob through this. Even though the change was a bit frightening Cyrix reached forward and placed a hand on Rob's shoulder. "Just relax... I know this is... different and you're confused, but just take a deep breath and try to keep still as the change happens." he said with sympathy in his voice and compassion shining in his eyes.

Rick stepped on another fastbiter and knocked it out. He smiled momentarily as he looked around at the fight going on... and for a single moment a pang of fear ran through him as he thought about something. 'What happens... if one of us... dies in this world?' However at the sound of Longtail's roar Rick snapped out of his thought and felt a sharp, slashing pain as two fast biters were biting and clawing on his neck. He tossed his neck back and then flung it forward throwing the fastbiters off and grimaced in pain.

Spike stepped back upon Chronicler and Rubys word. He then sat down and looked around at the sight of the fighting down at the bottom of the hill and groaned in despair.

[Cancerian Tiger]

"Just how many of these b******s ARE there?!" Anna blurted as she continued to use her fists and tail.

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"Well, if you say so," Cera grumbled as she stepped back.  

"I hope this is over soon, yep yep yep!" Ducky squeaked as she found a place near Cera.